Usually means: Dance originating from early 1920s.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word CHARLESTON:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. Charleston, the Charleston, the charleston: Merriam-Webster
  2. Charleston, Charleston, charleston: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Charleston, Charleston: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. charleston: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Charleston: Vocabulary.com
  6. Charleston, charleston: Wordnik
  7. Charleston, charleston: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Charleston, charleston: Wiktionary
  9. Charleston: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Charleston: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Charleston: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Charleston: Dictionary.com
  13. Charleston: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Charleston (dance), Charleston (film), Charleston (song), Charleston, The Charleston: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. charleston: Rhymezone
  16. charleston: FreeDictionary.org
  17. Charleston: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. charleston: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Charleston: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. charleston: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. Charleston: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dance (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Charleston (disambiguation), charleston: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. charleston: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See charlestoning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Charleston)

noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Franklin County.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Coles County, Illinois; after Charles Morton, its first postmaster.
noun:  A town in Maine; after Charles Vaughan, an early settler.
noun:  A city in Mississippi, and one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Mississippi County, Missouri; after either nearby Charles Prairie or the city in South Carolina.
noun:  A town in New York; after Charles Van Epps, an early settler.
noun:  A neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City; after Charles Kreischer, son of Balthasar Kreischer, after whom the town was previously named (as Kreischerville).
noun:  A city, the county seat of Charleston County, South Carolina; after Charles II of England.
noun:  A city in Tennessee.
noun:  A town in Utah; after Charles Shelton, an early settler.
noun:  A town in Vermont; after a naval battle near the city in South Carolina; the town's early settlers were naval officers.
noun:  The capital city of West Virginia, United States and the county seat of Kanawha County; perhaps after Charles Clendenin, the father of an early settler.
noun:  A community of Nova Scotia, Canada.
noun:  A village in Angus council area, Scotland; after Charles Henderson, proprietor of the village's land before its formation.
noun:  An area of Dundee, Scotland.
noun:  A town in South Australia.
noun:  A coastal village south of Westport, West Coast, New Zealand.
noun:  (preceded by definite article) A dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina.
verb:  (intransitive) To dance the Charleston.

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